|  | 7.5 | Monitoring and Managing an IPX Network
| 7.5.4 |
Writing a valid IOS command to monitor IPX traffic, and describe some of the field options for that command

You use the show ipx traffic command to get information about the number and type of IPX packets received and transmitted by the router. Notice that a large percentage of the total number of packets received and sent were RIP advertisements because this sample was taken from a lab network with essentially no user traffic on it. This output shows how much overhead traffic IPX generates. The information in the table describes the fields that might possibly be shown in the example.